Bad Blood
A Memoir
By Lorna Sage
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060938086, 304pp.)
Publication Date: January 31, 2003
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Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claustrophobic childhood in post-World War II Britain and the story of three generations of the author's family and its marriages.
In one of the most extraordinary memoirs of recent years, Bad Blood brings alive in vivid detail a time -- the '40s and '50s -- not so distant from us but now disappeared. As a portrait of a family and a young girl's place in it, it is unsurpassed.
An influential literary critic, Lorna Sage taught English at British and American universities and was most recently professor of English at the University of East Anglia. Her previous books include Women in the House of Fiction, The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English, and a short monograph on Angela Carter.
"In Bad Blood, [Sage] has written a classic."
-New York Review of Books
"Extraordinary. Should stand out for its combination of powerful writing, wicked black humor and social history."
-Publishers Weekly Daily
"Deeply affecting and beautifully written."
-People
"Magnificent.Compeling.A superb memoir of a daughter of the 1950s who got knocked up, but not knocked down."
-Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio's Fresh Air
"Shockingly frank, but also witty, passionate, and utterly lacking self-pity - and surprisingly uplifting."
-Kirkus Reviews
"Deserves special notice. The intensely personal story will resonate with more than just Anglophiles."
-Booklist
"An award-winning memoir of courageous escape."
-Harper's Bazaar
"Deserves to become a classic."
-The Independent (London)
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